1966 · United States Air Force
Pioneer 7
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Pioneer A to E (Pioneer 6 to 9 after launch) were a series of five solar-orbiting, spin-stabilized, solar-cell and battery-powered satellites designed to obtain measurements of interplanetary phenomena from widely separated points in space on a continuing basis.
Overview
- Date / time
- August 17, 1966 at 03:20 PM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A
- Mission
- Pioneer 7
- Mission type
- Astrophysics
- Orbit achieved
- Heliocentric N/A